WATCH: Bitcoin Takeover Discusses Litecoin vs Bitcoin Privacy

Bitcoin Takeover, hosted by Vlad Costea, spoke with Charlie Lee the creator of Litecoin, on a broad range of privacy and scalability topics. In what was a more in-depth and comparative interview, Vlad and Charlie compare and contrast the privacy of Litecoin, Monero, Zcash, and Bitcoin from various angles.

How to watch:

• YouTube

How to listen:

• Spotify (audio podcast)

Topics discussed (timestamped links to YouTube):

• LTC/BTC Background

• MWEB Origin

• Litecoin vs Monero vs Zcash scalability

• Why use extension blocks?

• MWEB vs Liquid Network

• MWEB CoinJoins

• Underperformance of privacy coins

• Risk of hidden inflation (or lack thereof)

• Does MWEB increase node requirements?

• How MWEB increases/decreases the stability of Nakamoto Consensus long-term

• Will MWEB ever be accepted as an upgrade to Bitcoin?

• MWEB vs Taproot

• Does Bitcoin need layer 1 privacy?

• USA vs China's approaches to regulating Bitcoin

• MWEB transaction size vs Litecoin main chain

• How much transaction data is pruned within MWEB?

• Why Bitcoin may never implement MWEB

• Future developments: payment proofs & coinswaps

• Litecoin: security or commodity?

• Current and future transaction capacity increase enabled by MWEB

• How having Litecoin increases Bitcoin's resilience

• Will Litecoin become legal tender in El Salvador?

• Backlash from Korean exchanges to MWEB

• Wallet support for MWEB

• MWEB atomic swaps & how atomic swaps work

- Vitamin Ł (@LtcBtc)